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Northern Ireland Facts and Figures

Population: 1.77 million (est. June '08)Area: 13,843 km2 Border: 360km (with the Republic of Ireland)Counties (in order of population): Antrim, Down, Londonderry, Tyrone, Armagh, Fermanagh (Northern Ireland's six counties also fall within the ancient Irish Province of Ulster which also includes neighbouring Counties Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal)....
Robert Burns - the Belfast connection

As the strains of Auld Lang Syne subside and we approach Burns Night on 25 January, how many of you are aware of the Scots Bard's Ulster connections?Robert Burns was born in Ayrshire on January 25 1759, six years after the publication of The Ulster Miscellany one of the first Ulster publications in the Scots language....
NI Public Holidays

N. Ireland has ten bank holidays, sharing eight with England and Wales and adding St Patrick's Day and the Anniversary of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne, commonly known as The Twelfth....
The Twelfth and the Orange Order

The Orange Order is Northern Ireland's largest Protestant organisation, and has around 40,000 members locally....
Ethnic Belfast

Due to our troubled past, Belfast & NI has seen a lot less immigration than other parts of Western Europe....
10th Festival of Fools

From stiltwalking mermaids to sword swallowing women, mysterious magicians to gardeners on trapezes, this riotous assembly of laughter has the lot....
Haunted Belfast

Everyone likes a good scare every now and again, and Belfast offers plenty of investigative opportunities for all you wannabe ghostbusters....
ULSTERBUS DAYTOURS - Belleek, Bundoran and Sligo Town.

Travel Writer Colin McAlpin hits the road - and someone else is driving.Bundoran, the fossilised town (circa: l950s) on the Co....
How till spake Norn Iron (A guide to local phrases)

As the old saying goes, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" and it's pretty much the same here in Belfast....
A Brief History of Belfast

Before you begin, we thought you might like to take BBC Northern Ireland's State of Minds test. This fascinating insight holds up a mirror to our conscious and subconscious secterianism and reveals just how bigoted we really are....
NI by Railway: BELFAST-LARNE HARBOUR

Local writer and railway enthusiast COLIN McALPIN takes a train ride across NI and uncovers some fascinating snippets along the routes....
NI by Railway: BELFAST-BANGOR

Today the only line still operating over what was once the extensive route system of the Belfast and County Down Railway is that from Belfast Central to Bangor....
NI by Railway: BELFAST-DERRY

THE HISTORYNorthern Ireland's modern railway system may be small, but it is an excellent one....
On the Presidential Trail

They may have been born in the USA, but an astounding 17 out of the 43 US Presidents can claim some form of Irish ancestry....

Where to find Belfast In Your Pocket

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ARRIVAL POINTS
Belfast International Airport Tourist Information Desk
Belfast International Airport car hire desks
George Best Belfast City Airport Tourist Information Desk
George Best Belfast City Airport car hire desks
Central Rail Station (trains to Dublin and Derry)
Europa Buscentre (buses to both airports and Dublin)
Great Victoria Street Rail Station (trains to Dublin, alight within same terminal as Europa Buscentre)
On-board Stena Voyager from Scotland (seasonal)

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HOTEL
Park Plaza Hotel

CITY CENTRE
On-board Belfast City Sightseeing bus tours - EXCLUSIVE
Belfast Welcome Centre
Europa Hotel
Fitzwilliam Hotel
Merchant Hotel
Hilton Hotel
Premier Inn Waring Street
Premier Inn Alfred Street
Ramada Encore
Park Inn
Days Hotel
Radisson Blu
Belfast International Hostel
Jurys Inn
Travelodge
The Irish Linen and Gift Centre
The Wicker Man
Carrolls Irish Gifts
Belfast Central Library
CastleCourt Shopping Centre
Ten Square Hotel
Queen's Welcome Centre, Queen's University
Ulster Museum
Belfast City Hall tours
Victoria Square

WEST BELFAST AND SHANKILL
Culturlann Tourist Information Desk, Falls Road
Shankill Tourist Information Centre

TITANIC QUARTER and EAST BELFAST
Titanic Dock and Pump-House, Queen's Road, behind Odyssey complex
Stormont Hotel, Upper Newtownards Road, opp. Stormont Estate
Premier Inn Titanic Quarter

OUTSIDE BELFAST
Derry Tourist Information Centre
Lisburn Tourist Information Centre
Premier Inn Hotel, Lisburn
Hillsborough Tourist Information Centre
Ards Tourist Information Centre, Newtownards
Bangor Tourist Information Centre
Carrickfergus Tourist Information Centre
Giant's Causeway Tourist Information Centre
Strabane Tourist Information Centre
Enniskillen Tourist Information Centre
Ballymena Tourist Information Centre
Ballycastle Ferry Terminal (for Rathlin Island and Campbeltown, Kintyre)
Rayanne House, Holywood, Co. Down

DUBLIN
Connolly Rail Station (Enterprise Passenger Lounge for train to Belfast) - EXCLUSIVE
NITB Information Desk, Dublin Tourism, Suffolk Street.

Belfast

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Features

More features:

Northern Ireland Facts and Figures

Robert Burns - the Belfast connection

NI Public Holidays

The Twelfth and the Orange Order

Ethnic Belfast

10th Festival of Fools

Haunted Belfast

ULSTERBUS DAYTOURS - Belleek, Bundoran and Sligo Town.

How till spake Norn Iron (A guide to local phrases)

A Brief History of Belfast

NI by Railway: BELFAST-LARNE HARBOUR

NI by Railway: BELFAST-BANGOR

NI by Railway: BELFAST-DERRY

On the Presidential Trail

Where to find Belfast In Your Pocket

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